Show TELLS I ABOUT PAYROLL Admits A Knowledge of Fact That Fictitious Names r ames Were Written There INVESTIGATION IS STARTED SUPERINTENDENT MAKES SOME INGENIOUS EXPLANATIONS Although A tho gh nothing was brought out ari et at t the investigation which the Ute board or of f education began be an last evening Into the department of George M t Bridwell its of buildings and grounds groua s loud good start was wa made and enough Im Improprieties a II proprieties admitted to show that there then iia ja h teen en a laxity in the department if lothing worse Bridwell was wag allowed to toha toha nt and was represent ha have counsel present pr rt d I H C Judge Henderson lire sided and every member of the board boards bo rd Wl a s present John S Rollo supreme ourt orrt 0 rt stenographer apher was wae engaged 8 a to take a 1 lull tul report of or the evidence was eras the only examined eI d the leading part in the tRe examination wa a taken by Thomas Mr aIr indwell ell admitted knowledge of the vari vaI various vaInus ous nus oU assumed names under which era rs of the Newman family tam worked W for forno forill no w hoard board and ami that he was privy to the th als entries on the pay rope rolls He also aleo al o limited admitted having been warned wanted on the sub subi subby i i 1 hv by Mr JAr Thomas who WIle told him last August i that thai it must au e or he be would get eel in into serious trouble He HI said aid that he had been n in the habit f depositing the check he be received from the tl board to pay the tile men and had paid pail I in hem pm m each by his hie hl personal check Some Imps tinis t signed the pay roll a consider considerable able bk while after they had received the money mot mor and sometimes be he had mailed the f erk eek to 10 them and not obtained their sig at tret H 11 He threw considerable i on his hix hi foreman E J Evans Bvans and nn n his brother T J Bridwell and J S SL SLem L Lem wi an who sometimes made mad I Ip P th Ih the pay roll He had be he said relied retted or p r the honesty of his hie foreman which left un rm ignorant of many man matters I K u advanced the claim that the pay I roil M 11 was wall only for tor his hiB own benefit benent any aay 3 ac and was inaugurated by him All Allt ih the t i board needed I was the vouchers of the theIn gin ITI One admission was that lie he had him 1 11 f added th the snort sord Ney man to the names and nd In on one the word to Will WID Jefferson He lie knew that n t Arthur Smith Arthur Edwards Edwarda and Arthur Newman were the same person and m l that Ed Bd Green was an assumed name of f Kd Nd t Newman He lIe further admitted the Crockett Incident Explanations Some of t the th explanations were In ru ous Asked by Bailey Baney why wh IK r brother T J Bridwell has haa drawn pay 13 for one holiday hollday and two Sun flats ria 8 he sold said this tide waa was because of or union ile if forgetting that T J Bridwell at a ai i evious f ions investigation Ine had sold said Id he did Rut not belong blon to the tile union lIe tie afterwards tried rigid Iri to in quality this when Oscar O eat Moyle Movie asked kd him if this the were not the case ca e by b bring ring aying that he did not know when his h r jot union To Mr Bailey ne said Mid T J Bridwell was wasa a and that two sons had also for the board J S Lewis was arcs he the of or his hill brother and andA V A Tice occupied the same relation p R X M and J F P Williams were ere eren nephew n All there the t he said were employed em employed d by Evans Eana the tile foreman and with without out ant an his hili consent and against his wishes hea heaTher There Ther was a lively tilt tnt during the even een ng between Mr 1 Thomas and Mr 11 Ed Fd Edw EdreI w wards rd reI which ended In m somewhat modify ng nl the extent which t toe noun counsel for forthe the he h superintendent should Mr rr was wu inclined to he be t tai t e and to resent the Ing M 11 1 J Cheesman member of or the t board from the Stood Second precinct was rather im ha impatient Impatient patient at the questioning and wanted is o 0 whitewash hIt Mr lr Bridwell at once with without out hit t t waiting any a y longer lie He also had a ata Ht ta with Mr lr Thomas and left lell the room returning after a time |